May grace abound to you; you overcome any challenging situation.

I’m not saying that suffering is our fault. I believe we suffer because sin has taken hold of the world. And with sin comes selfishness and heartlessness and wickedness. But I also think there will...

God’s word is lamp that lights my path.

A joyful life, life of contentment.

On feeling guilty about lack of ‘productivity’:”In a time of infirmity, the illness IS one’s work. Taking care of all the disciplines that our health problems require IS the other part of the small daily...

You will find rest on Sabbath day for your soul.

[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God’s resources.

Only when your inner life is right will your outer life be right as well.

Victory occurs when you let God fight your battles.

In its highest form, not judging is the ultimate act of forgiveness.

Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU … you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.

I didn’t deserve a friend like this, who loved me for no reason— who loved me despite my mistakes. I caught my breath as the thought entered my mind. Could God love me this way...

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

To me, ‘Blue Like Jazz’ is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don – raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in...

She talks about being a Christian as if it’s a gym membership you can sign up for.

My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they’ll ask me how to get it. If not, that’s their business.

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great...

Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac?

Pride had a very similar character with Lust. He was difficult to satisfy, but rather than desiring tasty foods, Pride desired valuable possessions. Man clung to Pride more than the other two because he was...

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

The explanation for her absence had been staring him in the face all the while, but he hadn’t wanted to acknowledge it: The affair meant nothing to her. He’d been the only one bewitched body...

Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.

Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child crying for his mother. Now he lifted his eyes to a dark, empty...

I’m always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

a criminal sketch of Christon a diner napkin-‘Poet Prophets

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so...

Face me and learn that I’m not alone, attack and you’ll find that my Leader stands beside me. I will bleed and I may die, but this warrior will not be shaken!” -Regan

That is the idea — that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for...

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so,...

But miracles still happen, even if we don’t think they do.

Men and women are needed whose prayers will give to the world the utmost power of God; who will make His promises to blossom with rich and full results. God is waiting to hear us...

Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus’ words that unless...

Let us be women who Love. Let us be women willing to lay down our sword words, our sharp looks, our ignorant silence and towering stance and fill the earth now with extravagant Love.Let us...

A little knee time first thing in the day keeps u standing all day!

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result

We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.

Count the cost of your calling, find the value of your dream, and most of all find your place in His love.

God is good, and I love Him. Right now, God is permitting a very hard thing. Why, I don’t know, but I still trust Him.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

When you choose to work with a willing, happy heart, you become a beautiful source of joy to all.

She just asked me to pick her up some tampons and a Yoo-Hoo.” ~Alex Sinclair

Prayer enables you to tap into God’s wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what’s going on.

The goodness you receive from God is a treasure for you to share with others.

Everyone asks me how I got started into writing. I wish I had some cool story to tell, but the truth is pretty lame. My wife and I were having a drink on our back...

This is how it needs to be in life. Solomon also wrote these words in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV) “Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other...